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!@#$%! · 05.03.2010, 01:42 PM

thinking more about lacan's mirror stage, not just jung said it before, freud said it with his ego/id/superego, nietzsche said it before in 20 different ways, rimbaud said it too around the same time (lettres du vident), and zen monks said that too a long long time ago.

lacan's slight modification to these repetitions of past statements is i believe that he proposes that this split happens through language. that's it. that's why literary "theorists" had a boner for him for a while. language! let's hang on to that...

anyway, nobody really fucking understands lacan. check this out:

"Lacan deliberately wrote in an obscure and at times absolutely unintelligible manner, one made infinitely more complicated, I have painfully learned, by much play on words in sophisticated French that defies translation even by professors of French. Fink attempts to be as clear as possible, and one must give him credit for making a tremendous effort to explain Lacan's ambiguous, deliberately obscure, and narcissistically esoteric prose, but at certain points he simply is unable to do so. "

this by someone who actually thinks lacan is important to the psychiatric profession:

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/...ll/155/2/298-a

it's a nice review, by the way.

05.03.2010, 01:42 PM	#87
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,460	thinking more about lacan's mirror stage, not just jung said it before, freud said it with his ego/id/superego, nietzsche said it before in 20 different ways, rimbaud said it too around the same time (lettres du vident), and zen monks said that too a long long time ago. lacan's slight modification to these repetitions of past statements is i believe that he proposes that this split happens through language. that's it. that's why literary "theorists" had a boner for him for a while. language! let's hang on to that... anyway, nobody really fucking understands lacan. check this out: "Lacan deliberately wrote in an obscure and at times absolutely unintelligible manner, one made infinitely more complicated, I have painfully learned, by much play on words in sophisticated French that defies translation even by professors of French. Fink attempts to be as clear as possible, and one must give him credit for making a tremendous effort to explain Lacan's ambiguous, deliberately obscure, and narcissistically esoteric prose, but at certain points he simply is unable to do so. " this by someone who actually thinks lacan is important to the psychiatric profession: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/...ll/155/2/298-a it's a nice review, by the way.
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